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I think this is the first time I've ever seen anybody actually say they like the Scarlet Witch.

I like the Scarlet Witch, Hope, Mystique, Black Widow, etc - and I will fight anyone over any one of them RAAAR solidarity.

I like plenty of women characters, including all of the ones you mentioned, except for Scarlet Witch. She has zero in the way of consistent personality and presence - she's just a boring cardboard standup for whatever writer happens to be on Avengers at the time. Even things that should have defined her, like the stuff with the Vision and the kids or Avengers Disassembled just came off as being forced. All other times, she's just random check with random powers in the background of Avengers fights. Her personality never developed beyond "Magneto's daughter" or "Quicksilver's sister" or "Vision's wife".

I'm not sure I get the Kate Bishop love. I mean, she never really did anything in Young Avengers and she isn't characterized super well. Frankly, I don't even really understand why she's on the team - let alone as Hawkeye.

I'm not saying she can't be a good character. I just don't think she's demonstrated much in terms of awesome yet. Granted, I can hardly remember the original Young Avengers.

Cassie was always the best of the YA, because she didn't treat it almost like a hobby as the others did (this could also be in part with how Marvel screwed up incorporating the team into the MU). Kate seems fine, but along with Patriot they have the most to grow with a proper mentor and have a dynamic we usually see in DC. USAgent training Patriot, how awesome would that be?

WatXM #9, I liked. It had some stupid lines from Wolverine about Cyclops' side, when he had much better characterization in AvX #1, but hooray for Toad, he'll get the girl soon (take that Worthington!). I still think Bachalo needs to stop coloring his work, Beast just looks like a pile of blue and the detail like his John Goodman ponytail get lost. The issue seemed to work between the cracks a lot better than New Avengers did last week, and not have 4 pages of tie-in with pages of talking about feelings. If you picked this up because it tied into AvX, it's much more accessible than NA was.

I liked how in WatXM #9 Aaron took a crack at Cyclops' handling of Hope and a jet pack. There's some really nice, neat plotting across the various titles for AvX. Looks like this design-by-committee thing might be working out.

OK I just saw a pretty badass scene from X-Men 27 on Scans Daily involing Jubilee. I don't know if it makes up for Gischler's relatively mediocre run but he seems to be going out on a high note at least.